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Annual Lecture

Each year the Friends’ committee organises a lecture, which is an opportunity for scholars to do research and contribute to the thinking of those in the Reformed tradition and add to the theological thought of the whole Church.

The subjects of the lecture in recent years are listed below. Copies of historic lectures are available to download free of charge.

Year	Lecturer(s)	Subject
2022	Dr David Wykes	Eighteenth and early nineteenth-century English Presbyterians and Congregationalists: the evidence for cooperation
2021	Rev Dr John Campbell	A Creative Inheritance – applying a nonconformist gifting in Biblical Interpretation today
2020	Professor Jane Shaw	Nonconformists and the Modern Revival of Mysticism
2019	Anne James and Jean Shammi	Remembering the Dead: The Role of manuscript Sermons and Sermon Notes in Researching Early Modern Memorial Practice
2018	Dr David Cornick	Through Erik Routley’s Eyes: Theology, Ecumenism and Congregationalism in the 1950s and 1960s
2017	Rev Fleur Houston	The Handmaid’s Tale: Ministry, Gender and Power
2016	Prof Clyde Binfield	Platform and Pulpit in Peace and War, 1913-1920
2015	Rev Dr Peter C Humphreys	Dublin Congregationalism: The Rise and Demise of a Dissenting Tradition
2014	Dr David Ceri Jones	George Whitefield and the Revival of Calvinism in Eighteenth Century Britain
2013	Dr Neil E Allison	‘The Spirit of Cromwell’: Nonconformist Chaplains’ War Ministry and Experience (1914-1918)
2012	Prof. John Coffey	Brethren or Sectaries? Richard Baxter on the Congregationalists
2011	Rev Dr Janet Wootton	Hymnody: A Sung Theology that Changed the World
2010	Prof. John Briggs	Two Congregational Denominations: Baptist and Paedobaptist
2009	Dr Stephen Orchard	Congregationalism and Catholicity
2008	Dr Elaine Kay	‘A Way of Gospel Obedience’: The Church Meeting in Congregational Tradition and Practice
2007	Dr Robert Pope	Emerging Church: Congregation or Aberration
2006	Prof. Keith Robbins	Foreign Encounters: English Congregationalism, Germany and the United States c.1850-1914
2005	Dr Chad B Van Dixhoorn	A Dat at the Westminster Assembly
2004	Prof M A Stewart	Independency of the Mind in Early Dissent
2003	Rev Kirsty Thorpe	Daughters of Dissent
2002	Rev Dr David M Thompson	The Decline of Congregationalism in the 20th Century
2001	Rev Dr Paul Blackham	Thomas Goodwin: Word and Spirit
2000	Rev Dr Jack McKelvey	Recovering the Book of Revelation
1999	Rev Dr Alan Argent	Isaac Watts: Poet, Thinker, Pastor
1998	Rev Dr David Hilborn	‘The Words of our Lips’: Language-use in Free Church Worship
1997	Rev Dr Susan Durber	A Prodical Daughter’Posting’ the Bible: Post Structuralism and the Parables
1996	Dr Clyde Binfield	A Congregational Formation: An Edwardian Prime Minister’s Victorian Education
1995	Rev Barrie D Scopes	‘Fire in the Belly’ : Motivation for Mission in the LMS/CWM over Two Centuries
1994	Rev Dr John Travell	‘The Necessity of God’: The Message and Ministry of Leslie D. Weatherhead
1993	Rev Alan Tovey	Whatever Happened to the Separatists? A Commemoration of the Martyrdom of Barrow, Greenwood and Penry 1591
1992	John Creasey	The Congregational Library
1991	Rev Dr Alan P F Sell	Rhetoric and Reality: Theological Reflections upon Congregationalism and its Heirs
1990	Rev Dr Peter C Jupp	From Dust to Ashes: The Replacement of Burial by Cremation in England 1840-1867
1989	Rev Dr Janet Wootton	Dissent BC: The Old Testament’s Untold Story
1988	Rev Dr Colin Gunton	The Transcendent Lord: The Spirit and the Church in Calvinist and Cappadocian
1987	Rev Dr Tudur Jones	John Robinson (1576-1625): His Vision of Church Society

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